a trip to Maxwell Hill

to all of you who is an adventure breed, i highly recommend you Maxwell Hill a.k.a. Bukit Larut at Taiping. i mean, those who can't be away from KL for too long...

so it was Nit, Vivian, Qi Zhen, Jean, Ru and me who went for the trip at last. at first, we planned nicely by gathered everyone in Qi Zhen's house at SS3 (so no one will be late) the previous night and reach our breakfast place (not nice dim sum recommended by Qi Zhen) around 7:30a.m.

then, we finished and prepared to start our journey by sleeping... except for the driver... but Qi Zhen (the only male, therefore driver) couldn't start our trip car - Unser (known as ANSWER by Jean). after Boon arrived (Ru's bro almost came with the jump start cable) and we settled everything at a workshop nearby, the problem was battery-due. so, Nit paid RM250 for that, we then started our journey, finally...

we arrived at Taiping around 1:30p.m., Vivian's ex-boss, KJ and sister, Moon were already there. so, Nit who had her car sick pills (she even double the dose) and stayed half-conscious until the jeep that would send us uphill arrived.

it was all slopes until we reached uphill, not the peak yet, but already took 45 minutes drive. then, we walked through a small path in the woods in order to reach the bungalow we booked. we were tired and hungry. it was also drizzling.

as soon as we arrived, we were welcomed by uncle and selected our beds before we went to have lunch. we headed to the kitchen and were embraced by the aroma of the food. we were excited to have really nice dishes before uncle's wife, a.k.a. grumpy auntie served us. she almost threw the dishes on the table. we were shocked but too hungry to find out the answer, but we supposed she was angry for our late arrival.

after late lunch, we all went to bed due to exhausted journey and woke up at 7 plus for dinner. dinner was delicious, i must say. uncle is really a good cook (except for over-use of pepper). after dinner, we started our party session (typical mahjong, poker and drinking sessions).

Nit the alcoholic-wannabe drank some white wine and found herself still okay continued with some more red wine. Those wines were fabulous! Acknowledge to the contributor a.k.a. vineyard owner wannabe, Ru ;) Vivian was appointed to coach Qi Zhen on 3-players mahjong (the other 2 players were KJ and Ru). Moon stayed to watch the mahjong battle and went to bed before 11p.m. Jean, Nit and I enjoyed our time with silly poker games and 'cai mui'. we laughed till we were breathless by all the jokes made.

at 2 plus, the girls were tired and went to bed. i was tired and then after i went into the super silent bedroom, i didn't feel like sleeping at all. yawn gone, blanket seemed wet, echo on every step i made made me awake.

Qi Zhen, KJ and Ru, the 3-gamblers couldn't help but carry on their game until 4 plus. i tried my very best to call the late sleepers but failed as the network there was almost zero. i tried very hard to sms with Howie and He Han but it didn't work well. so i gave up and listened to my phone's mp3 in the bedroom (yes, to distract myself from my worst worry).

it wasn't a pleasant night after all but it was really an experience. the humid bungalow and freezing weather made me felt bad.

the next morning, we struggled our very best to wake up and had breakfast. breakfast was not that nice but nevermind considering we had to take the jeep downhill. again, Nit took her pills. half way downhill, there was a man (the jeep authority i guess) arranged another couple to our jeep. looking at there were only 10 seats in the jeep, uncle decided to stood up at the back all the way to downhill. the 72-year-old uncle became the hero in our mind (at that time).

after we reached, my stomach was upset and Nit wanted to throw up. everyone got up to our trip car again, and headed to Ipoh for lunch. it was delicious and made everyone's day. we even went to buy nice locally made biscuits as souveniers.

at around 4p.m., we reached home and continued sleeping...zzz... what a tiring journey.